Two kite controllers are currently beeing developed and tested: A controller for parking the kite in the azimut position, and a controller for flying the figure of eight maneuver.

In a next step a controller for the complete power generation cycle is derived, which includes the control of the winch.

Current research areas are:

adaptive kite control algorithms, that do not need a real-time capable kite model

agent based control with loosly coupled, independent controllers for the different system components

networked control system theory, with the goal to adapt the control algorithms to a control loop, where a wireless link with a curtain delay distribution and the possibility of packages losses is an essential part